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Species Bacillus cereus

Name: Bacillus cereus Frankland and Frankland 1887 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: L. masc. adj. cereus, waxen, wax-colored

Type strains: ATCC 14579; BCRC 10603; CCM 2010; CCRC 10603; CCUG 7414; CIP 66.24; DSM 31; HAMBI 1887; IAM 12605; IFO 15305; JCM 2152; LMG 6923; NBRC 15305; NCCB 75008; NCDO 1771; NCIMB 9373; NCTC 2599; NRRL B-3711; VKM B-504

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16S rRNA gene accession number: AF290547

Effective publication: Frankland GC, Frankland PF. Studies on some new microorganisms obtained from air. Royal Society London, Philosophical Transactions, Series B, Biological Sciences 1887; 178:257-287.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Frankland GC, Frankland PF. Studies on some new microorganisms obtained from air. Royal Society London, Philosophical Transactions, Series B, Biological Sciences 1887; 178:257-287.

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